Lot Essay
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Found in Camarina, Spadaro collection in Scicli. Benndorf, Archaölogische Anzeiger, 1867, 115; id., Griechische und sicilischer Vasenbilder, 84, pl. 39, no. 1, where the vase is called a hydria; Beazley, ARV2, 1121, no. 19, "shape unknown ... Recalls the Nausicaa Painter"; Cahn, Antike Vasen, Sonderliste R, Dezember 1977, 22, no. 59, pl. 54; I. Krauskopf, LIMC, I, 703, no. 73a and pl. 569 (sv Amphiaraos); O. Touchefeu-Meynier, LIMC, I, 769, no. 1 (sv Andromache). An alternative interpretation of this scene is Hector, Andromache and Astyanax.
Amphiaraos, son of Oicles and Hypermnestra, was a great prophet and hero at Argos, who was persuaded to join the ill-fated expedition against Thebes by his wife, Eriphyle. She had been induced to persuade her husband by the gift of the necklace of Harmonia from Polynices. On leaving Argos he urged his son to avenge his death which he had already foreseen. During the war against Thebes, unable to escape his fate, he fled towards the river Ismenius and the earth swallowed him up in his chariot. An oracle near Oropus, between Potniae and Thebes, grew up where he was immortalised and worshipped as a hero
Found in Camarina, Spadaro collection in Scicli. Benndorf, Archaölogische Anzeiger, 1867, 115; id., Griechische und sicilischer Vasenbilder, 84, pl. 39, no. 1, where the vase is called a hydria; Beazley, ARV2, 1121, no. 19, "shape unknown ... Recalls the Nausicaa Painter"; Cahn, Antike Vasen, Sonderliste R, Dezember 1977, 22, no. 59, pl. 54; I. Krauskopf, LIMC, I, 703, no. 73a and pl. 569 (sv Amphiaraos); O. Touchefeu-Meynier, LIMC, I, 769, no. 1 (sv Andromache). An alternative interpretation of this scene is Hector, Andromache and Astyanax.
Amphiaraos, son of Oicles and Hypermnestra, was a great prophet and hero at Argos, who was persuaded to join the ill-fated expedition against Thebes by his wife, Eriphyle. She had been induced to persuade her husband by the gift of the necklace of Harmonia from Polynices. On leaving Argos he urged his son to avenge his death which he had already foreseen. During the war against Thebes, unable to escape his fate, he fled towards the river Ismenius and the earth swallowed him up in his chariot. An oracle near Oropus, between Potniae and Thebes, grew up where he was immortalised and worshipped as a hero